the. votes are being counted in kuwait so contentious parliamentary elections the poll was boycotted by the opposition who claims it is rigged in support of the u.s. backed market. egyptian president mohamed morsi has named sort of the date for a public referendum on the country's new constitution made ongoing mass protests triggered by his self-imposed powers. and the world calls on israel to cancel new settlement buildings in the west bank and east of jerusalem this comes just days after the u.n. upgraded palestine's diplomatic status this as conflicting reports emerge of that fresh israeli strikes on a residential area in gaza. and

top news and commentary from moscow this is art to you live glad to have you with us the vote counting is still underway in kuwait where the opposition claims it is the lowest turnout ever with only a quarter of people casting a ballot the opposition has boycott of the parliamentary ballot accusing the ruling of monarchy of changing the election rules to influence the outcome of the poll artie's was a tough enough is in the gulf state with the latest poll the polls are closed doors olds are in but the battle over kuwait's political future has only just begun as expected the new parliament is largely consisting of folks who are considered to be closely allied with the ruling power but that is because the opposition didn't front any candidates in a boycott of the vote they've even questioned the outcome before the last ballot was cast voter turnout varied widely from polling place to polling place but with a very low numbers at some locations the legitimacy of the results are certainly bound to be. questioned now the crisis was sparked after the islamist dominated

parliament who was dismissed over a row with the ruling power of the situation was then brought to a boiling point after the emir issued a surprise decree changing the country's complicated voting laws critics allege that it was a move in order to force a more compliant parliament which had sparked massive street battles as well as the boycott that we're now discussing now the political rift is only likely to deepen the question is whether the opposition is now going to take their fight to the streets and whether the monarchy will respond with a heavy hand force what happens here has implications far beyond kuwait's borders as an opec member any sort of unrest is bound to affect oil markets the country is also a hub for the pentagon's ground forces with thousands of combat troops stationed here as a military counterweight to iran now the gulf monarchies have been struggling to fend off possible instability from the arab spring with varying degrees of success kuwait is largely seen as the most tolerant of the countries in this region but the

worry is of course that the trend could be reversed recent months have seen as collating clashes between a position groups and security forces who have used tear gas stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse crowds of political gatherings of more than twenty people have been banned and activists are saying the family down against dissent authorities and did allow thousands of protesters to gather for a peaceful rally on friday but the worry is that the next few weeks are bound to test the limits of the government's tolerance as well as the self control displayed by the opposition and what happens here in kuwait could very well write the next chapter of the arab spring to seek out r.t. kuwait's eric draitser a geo political analyst from stop imperialism dot com says quote it needs to balance its own interests with the influence of the west. the most important element in all of this is whether or not the opposition is able to stand up against

this family the ruling class the ruling class in kuwait and most importantly standing against u.s. imperialism kuwait in and of itself is not terribly important but when seen in the context of the g.c.c. and seen as one of the most reliable u.s. allies particularly juxtaposed against what is happening in bahrain then we understand that the united states in the western powers cannot allow the saw family to fall you have to see that kuwait is a launching point in a possible war against iran so all of these taken together really shows that the united states has both political geo political and then of course social reasons why they want to maintain the status quo egypt's president mohamed morsi has announced that the referendum on the new constitution will be held on december the fifteenth that's as the country is gripped by unrelenting protests with thousands coming out both for and against morsi and his artie's tom barton reports the document approved by his is the most allies has some as come in for some fish criticism we've been hearing for over

a week now from the opponents and for egyptians president mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood who backed him criticism after the decree he gave last week granting himself sweeping new powers the power to make decrees with no legal challenge under the new constitution here rushed through opponents say and to islamist where you won't hear any in fact criticism here so this is a demonstration in support whatsoever how would you see many people here for me was so from the sections of egyptian society. very supportive of him as a president since it was practically a laxatives i think i think his declaration was for a good reason or do you think station is reasonable for. him to show going but it's not just simply asking. what was.

it you. think it was it was a joke she society but not sanctions at the regulations that was made out of this not just being peaceful protests in iran tucker eskew i mean was around egypt some protesters. i think it was easter week a demonstrator is in support obama because they say thank you out it was me i think you would be if you think you're was going to have to resign because you have to try to. listen was. going to was you should. middle east expert dr omar sure says morsi is not doing enough to pacify his opponents that are thirteen point two million voters who voted for the president and there are more din twelve million that will do it for him against him so any of these camps can mobilize hundreds of seldon's and you would in egypt it's

a power struggle the opposition or some of its leaders at least lost the presidential elections in the parliamentary elections before death as they are quite worried about the islamist supporters of the president and you don't want to see it is an islamist domination of egypt's elected institutions the president was elected by a video middle margin i'm not surprised with the polarization i think the president could have done a better job in containing such a call the wise action by having a better communication strategy but definitely egypt if the constitution was upheld and if we had. on introductions i think egypt will be heading towards the high tech . and we are getting conflicting reports on a possible cease fire violation an israeli tank has apparently shelled a residential area in gaza injuring four people from one family however some claim it could be a petrol tank explosion meanwhile a number of western countries plus the un have hit out at israel for authorizing

three thousand new settler homes in the west bank and east jerusalem the u.s. called the construction decision counterproductive to peace negotiations to end of the arab israeli conflict palestinians say the lands in the west bank and east jerusalem which were occupied by israel in the one nine hundred sixty s. must be returned to them human rights activist steve hind believes both sides are now further from a two state solution than ever before. if we're serious about a two state solution and if we're serious about moving towards. there is no way that this assessment expansion can be seen as in any way a move towards getting back on the table and moving towards the peace talks that both sides so desperately need in the latest upsurge in violence that we've seen documented proof that israel. indiscriminate attacks i.e. they fail to distinguish between combatant and civilian in the same way that hamas rocket attacks very clearly are aimed at civilians which is

a violation of international humanitarian law in the sense that target civilian. indiscriminate nature of. the way for a two state solution perhaps you've ever been before but only by building on the international consensus that we've got the israel and even the united states are further away from can we move towards a long lasting peace and you're with r t the future of america's high tech hub is in jeopardy find out why silicon valley is shutting out of the innovators who helped create its digital revolution plus. i'm kind of a thought what i don't know doesn't everybody so if your government is killing innocent people you're ok with that so you go. ok with the good. i know i'm contradicting myself but i obviously don't want my government to kill innocent people but in the same boat. how do i know they're innocent we ask people in new york whether ignorance is bliss when it comes to their government's dark secrets

that's all still ahead this hour on r.t. . a lovely quiet morning a family gently sleeps in district heights maryland when fifty armed f.b.i. agents storm the house and guns drawn despite the family pleading that they were unarmed the law enforcement agents opened fire on a weaponless teenager my asian huli thankfully sholay suffered minor flesh wounds but the key issue is that it remains unknown as to why the house was stormed so here in america for no reason guys in black uniform storm someone's house alone in some rounds and left with no justification or explanation yes the family still doesn't know why this happened the f.b.i. is remaining silent you know i understand that there are some very bad individuals out there doing some very bad stuff at home but if you don't even really know whose

house or storming or why your storming it then maybe you should lay off the siege for a while you know what take a few minutes to think it over have a cup of coffee and maybe even do a little google search about the fourth amendment but it's just my opinion. parents versus social workers docu nabby pm last stop get any meat that

kidnapping children have become prizes to fight for why does the law or threaten families the social for it you see me in the form of they have a right of your home anymore if they feel that they have any kind of for suspicion about the world more for your for your children are all for just better at bringing up kids than their own mom and dad if your mother we have an industry that is so. concentrated on the other for trade with children. would be soon which brightened if you knew about sun from fines to christians.

who threw stones on t.v. dot com. and live from moscow this article at outback. footage has emerged apparently showing a syrian rebels executing loyalists while their victims pleaded for their lives some of the images you're about to see are quite graphic one of the gunmen is heard referencing an al qaeda linked group behind several terrorist attacks in the country this comes as the op. fighters claim new advances in their drive towards the capital damascus in the meantime authorities say they have restored all internet and phone services after a two day nationwide communications blackout news analyst patrick kennedy says the

information blockade benefits those backing the rebel militia has. become a massive problem again with syria and we've had this problem from the beginning which is the skewing of information coming out of the country the syrian observatory for human rights who is responsible for a lot of the mishal bogus claims or allowed the west to sort of justify the fact of the free syrian army terrorist groups the leaders of our western countries particularly nato countries or encouraging the syrian terrorist rebels guerrillas whatever you want to call them to really accelerate the bloodbath in that country because in the eyes of washington and london they're going to get the blood out because they're going to have reaching here in just a report just came out this week with a supplying satellite units to rebels rebel groups terrorist groups essentially in syria so they can communicate while the internet is down to their country there was an image initially sold in the media in places like the washington post is there

a move by the assad government possibly to shut down rebel communications but actually upon further investigation it looks like it's possible that actually the combination of the united states operatives and the syrian rebels could actually be behind the bringing down the internet and the reason is is because if the blood escalates in that country the last thing that the west wants is any reports coming out on the internet of actual rebel terrorist atrocities in a country across these that we've seen quite a bit of recently and now let's look at some other stories making headlines across the globe had least eight people have been injured and a sixty five arrested as clashes broke out at the inauguration of next. president police used tear gas to disperse protesters throwing molotov cocktails who then tried to break through security barriers the demonstrators claim president bought votes to secure his election when. north korea says it will try to launch

a long range rocket later this month the move is said to sour relations with south korea and the united states young young failed launch in april resulted in washington suspending food aid to the tallit area and state tensions on the peninsula are also rising over south korea's recent deal with the u.s. which will dramatically increase souls' ballistic missile range. at least two people have been killed and three badly injured when a double decker bus hit a bridge at miami international airport police are questioning the driver who is not believed to be familiar with the airport's road system a vehicle carrying thirty two mostly elderly passengers was too tall for the entrance to the arrivals area. so look on valley has long been the world's leading hub before high tech business a reputation largely attributed to an influx of foreign entrepreneurs but as archie's. found out this global symbol of enterprise could soon be in danger with

the u.s. growing ever more reluctant to welcome new talent from abroad. the silicon valley. lots of sharing helping each other even competitors will help each other similar the biggest brands on the planet. with america and surprisingly the majority were created by foreigners. jerry yang who was born in taipei surrogate britain whose parents came from russia when he was six or pierre omidyar an iranian born in paris silicon valley has thrived thanks largely to immigrants people who came here with their dreams and had the drive to make them a reality they transformed this plays into an unreliable for high tech development the birthplace of global pioneers one person who helps those outsiders to get a future in the door is to remain born and how it could blend struck she says the valley moves so fast that it seems skilled foreigners springing up left right and

center that she average day and there is a simple reason such success is coming their way so many of the of the indians and chinese that come in the others they make these great companies and then they hire people so they are really giving work i think they are hungry for their words they want to succeed they're driven the valley's biggest fries came with the boom of immigrants in the ninety's that brought innovations in software and internet services the numbers speak for themselves just over half of the companies found it in silicon valley from the in the ninety's to the mid two thousand had founders born and brought in the latest research says there he's accused to one for being born inventor behind three quarters after a new patient and like for many others getting impatient for his startup is what brought julia to palo alto her project is called smart wall and works is a messaging tool for those who want to avoid social networks most of the people

that are that i see are foreigners and also there are a lot of americans that are not from here so they're also coming it's it's not a matter of nationality here is a matter of the real skills that you have but there are some clouds on the california sky currently over half of foreign born inventiveness face visa hurdles the end. knowing economic recession has broad deep fears his home and not much needed jobs going into hands that have come from abroad me need time for many to understand that foreigners can actually bring benefits to times when america so desperately needs them and i think that's something that white america doesn't get they don't understand why. because they don't because i think that a lot of this fear is still there are they taking our jobs the way america prides itself on being a melting pot the country where thousands flocked for a better life but u.s.

immigration policy me put an end to all that and you know question artsy. for more on our stories you can head to our web site already there for you right now the u.s. senate approves a bill long national security which could damage the capability of afghanistan's security forces find out why online plus. two are going to publish is his official welcoming address revealing the agenda for the year ahead as russia assumes the presidency of the g. twenty. and u.k. officials get hot under the collar as one hundred seventy boxes containing top secret files about britain's former colonial rule have gone missing all that is at our website r g dot com. during two days of pretrial hearings lawyers for the american private accused of leaking classified data to wiki leaks told the court about his mistreatment and suicidal thoughts bradley manning has also already spent the best part of two years in detention for allegedly revealing killings that the u.s.

military did not want exposed on the anniversary of cable gate that landed him behind bars a lot of our finest asks whether people really want to know what their governments are up to. it's been two years since wiki leaks released what's now known as cable gates the world's largest leak of classified u.s. material so has it changed the world much this week let's talk about that i'm kind of a thought what i don't know doesn't hurt me so if your government is killing innocent people you're ok with that i'm not saying i'm ok with that but. i know i'm contradicting myself but i obviously don't want my government to kill innocent people but in the same boat. how do i know they're innocent if you run a government and you live or you run a business associate business and you lead everyone from your employees to the person who's the janitor to know everything about your business something's going to come back and haunt you and so maybe you shouldn't do anything that would haunt

you. that. you have a good point knowledge is power right so we found out some information so that's a positive thing but i don't know if it's changed anything you don't think it's changed the way the governments might act. i think if they broke through some sort of firewall to get this information they probably built a new firewall that they can't break through quite as easily i don't think it's changed anything i think the government is going to make it more of a secret you know as long as there's money power involved i don't think anything's going to change the information has since the printing of good will burke in the fourteenth century. the public is allowed to have information what about the government are they allowed to have information about us certainly yes so what about the people who protested bad the government is using the internet to spy on us. well if you want to spy on each other just look at today just to minutes ago syria just closing a bit of it so is that

a government the i think of the government specially the what america is the world is ultimately is going to about it whether or not we feel like wiki leaks has changed the world the bottom line is governments might now feel like they have their own big brother watching and hopefully that's a good thing. and coming up on our to our special report investigates finland's social services after a russian mother's children were taken away from her well intentioned child protection or something much more sinister find out after the short break. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the clients computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to

add the coveted seven centimeters to his stature invented by the famed soviet orthopedic is good for you as are from the nineteen fifties these frames for initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them off for their four stimulating tissue or. generation it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life piecing together patients shattered bones and in many cases their shattered lives were the main goal when professing designed his first brain using bicycle parts sixty years later he says invention is increasingly being used to help people who are eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same six thing somebody is live both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the was out of center now days seeking surgery. most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick

of who operated on many of them sas it usually comes down to man's pride. the first patient to turn to us with a leg length quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to still want to surgery because it's panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix that it may be nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living below is fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries abound in many countries and even the out there pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in others. his one seventy five i was one sixty

seven or one sixty eight and so. it would have brought me right to every one of the average for women who courted you know i think girl can be sure it's not a big deal here guy it's like expect. taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite endearing yet he still want to have her this surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations.

for a child to be taken from a family something really serious and extraordinary must happen. social services here are in no way course when the finish system has decided something there is nothing that can be done it's not a mistake of them it's just how they work. they don't take away a child without reason a child does not belong to his parents but to the states. when they bore me here the policeman asked me many times does your mom abuse you my said no she didn't. you know i've recently been to stonier and brought in town a present i always bring him some presents candies sweets from his tonia.

the russian citizen or him asylum and this brief packing ritual means the weekend has begun. it's also a time for celebration she's going to see those. but we can still make me an appointment either on saturday or in sun and so i take this train . over all it takes me one day to get there meet with anton and return. the three years you need under supervision and spent three hours together there are supervisors and an interpreter present at the meter on their behalf so they can write a check for us. there that it takes two hours by train to reach poultry on the west coast of finland from temporary in the south even this link fee journey there was enough to tell the entire story of three people with two countries in the

mid ninety's. from finland they were in a relationship for some time before getting married they lived together for ten years then they divorced. after about nine months after palm and i got divorced and tun was born on october the second two thousand and three was followed his release when anton was month and a half old cover is saved paternity status and then nine months later he became his legal guardian that anisa. and i called him to the court judgement i'm told was to stay with his mother during the week and spend weekends with his father some time later before my husband's attention began to trouble river so she decided to take a break from and go to russia. and they left. when we arrived i called and told him that we were in russia that we wanted to take a little break for a couple of weeks and then we were going.